Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I never feel more myself than when I’m writing; I never enjoy any day more than a good writing day.
For me, writing for younger audiences and writing for adults uses two different halves of my brain.
I have no desire to write my own biography, as long as I have strength and means to do better work.
After three straight years of writing, though, I definitely needed a break to just go live my life.
Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel.
Writing is really very easy. Tap a vein and bleed onto the page. Everything else is just technical.
The songs keep on writing themselves, and I really love them. It's as close as I get to a religion.
I like photography and I write; I also write music. One day I would like to direct [films] as well.
The only reward to be expected from literature is contempt if one fails and hatred if one succeeds.
That thing you had to force yourself to do-the actual act of writing-turns out to be the best part.
Press releases are easier to write than code, and that is still easier than making a great product.
[I write] intuitively, reflexively, as if skiing down a steep mountain slope with no time to think.
Writers can write outside their ethnicity or sex depending how open and vulnerable they wish to be.
I grew up writing about the paranormal, and I blame too many Saturday mornings watching Scooby Doo.
I also believe that writing becomes worthwhile and vitalized only through a full and exciting life.
Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.
The Intuitive one can read where the Master doesn't write and listen where the Master doesn't talk.
My way of writing a book is completely disorganized - to hurl myself at the problem, over and over.
Use the creative process - singing, writing, art, dance, whatever - to get to know yourself better.
We have some writers so abstruse and deep that they drown themselves in their fathomless sentences.
Let there be no inscription upon my tomb; let no man write my epitaph: no man can write my epitaph.
The contemporary historian never writes such a true history as the historian of a later generation.
The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one--or both. Usually both.
Jane Austen writes about these humdrum lives with such empathy that they seem endlessly fascinating
All of a writer that matters is in the book or books. It is idiotic to be curious about the person.
Anyone can sit down and write some boring artistic song. Pop music is the hardest [stuff] to write.
Acting is something I've always wanted to get into - you memorize lines when you write your rhymes.
I think it's important to leave spaces in a story for readers to fill in from their own experience.
I did some writing and bought a book, and have been working on that as a film to act and direct in.
I write about heartbreak because I like writing about sad things, but I'm writing happy songs, too!
I don't think you can write - at least not well - if you don't love stories, love the written word.
You’ll learn that the key to a great book is editing-grindin g, buffing, and polishing-not writing.
Us writers all like each other and want to write stories with each other; we're having a good time.
I write for teens partially to work out whatever it was that I needed to from my own teenage years.
Emphasizing and rewarding length over quality results in worse writing and more reader abandonment.
I only wish I could write with both hands, so as not to forget one thing while I am saying another.
If you have to pay the bills, and you write something you're not proud of, use a pen-name for that.
He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.
The easiest thing to do on earth is not write…But this is life on earth, you can't have everything.
Nobody asks you to do this. The world out there is not panting after another novelist. We choose it
You know, if you were *really* going to starve, you'd be justified in writing proprietary software.
I write about rats because they scare the hell out of me. I think we tend to write out our phobias.
You write about my flower as if I think and see what you think and see of the flower - and I don't.
My current project is my band, Population 1. We are writing, rehearsing and playing in Los Angeles.
I never know what I'm going to write next, and when I think I do I usually turn out to be mistaken.
For a long time, I saw writing prose as chewing rocks compared to the velocities of writing poetry.
Life - No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.
I want to do film and TV. I want to make good stories. I want to write; I want to be more involved.
Writing, printing, and the Internet give a false sense of security about the permanence of culture.
I write to find out what I am thinking. I write to find out who I am. I write to understand things.